In order to foster Software Carpentry's continued growth,
we are pleased to announce that we are creating an independent Software Carpentry Foundation (SCF).
Like other non-profit open source foundations,
it will decide Software Carpentry's overall scope and direction,
manage its finances,
and hold its intellectual property.

In order to work through the details have assembled an interim board drawn from a wide cross-section of our community:

This group's mandate is to draft the SCF's initial bylaws and get the foundation legal standing,
then arrange the transition to the first permanent board some time early in 2015.
Until then,
we will continue to do what we have always done:
teach scientists and engineers how to use computers to do more research in less time and with less pain.

Our thanks to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation,
the Mozilla Foundation,
the Software Sustainability Institute,
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory,
Research Bazaar,
and everyone else listed on
our partners page
for their sponsorship,
and to all of our volunteer instructors for making Software Carpentry possible.